Tonight we’re going to see a special concert production of “Jerry Springer: The Opera” at Carnegie Hall.

How bad a gay am I, and how big a political junkie, that I almost wish I could stay home tonight and watch the Florida Republican primary returns instead? Returns for a party I’m not even going to vote for?

So the TiVo is set to record MSNBC starting at 7:58 p.m., a couple of minutes before the polls close. (Florida polls close at 7:00, but the Panhandle’s on Central Time and they don’t start announcing returns until the whole state is closed.) When I get home I’m going to resist the temptation to go online and I’ll turn on the TiVo instead.

This is just more evidence that politics is my version of sports. Since I don’t care all that much about actual sports.

OK, I guess I’m not a bad gay.

Matt and I were watching TV last night, fast-forwarding through the commercials on the TiVo, when we whizzed past one that made us go “WTF?” Not only did it take place in Washington Square Park, right around the corner from where we used to live, but… animation. And more. Here’s the full 60-second version (we saw only a short version last night).

Apparently it’s the first of five musical animated ads the Truth campaign is going to run, and the music for all five is by David Yazbek.

The guy next to the unicorn is cute.

Tom Shales: George W. Bush is a man “whose approval rating of himself seemingly has never dropped much below 100.”